Las soluciones constructivas en la vivienda durante el franquismo: el caso de la vivienda ferroviaria

Abstract

The construction of railway housing during the Francoism, first by RENFE and then by railway cooperatives, was very significant with the construction of almost twenty thousand houses within 1945 and 1975. To be built by a Francoism company or by its employees determine typology, materiality and construction, not only due to the imposition of the regime’s ideology but also to the rigid regulations and to the problems of supply and restriction of building materials. The large number of housing built allowed the generalization of obsolete building solutions and helped to consolidate the so-called “traditional construction” far away from all previous constructive innovation in a heritage still in use in which the constructive solutions employed hinder its sustainable adaptation to the new ways of living and the current normative demands.